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I sat through the mindnumbing SUCK that was the Grammys last night.
So much suck.
What I HATED,
-Taylor Swift sucked shit, and was boring as fuck with her stupid "music."
-Fuck the Eagles, fuck Glenn Frey, let dad-rock die. James Taylor lost his voice years ago.
-While I admire the man, Kendrick Lamar's "performance" sucked. It was supposed to be transgressive but instead was muddled. I feel there is a very fine line between rap and spoken word shit, and I FUCKING HATE SPOKEN WORD SHIT "poetry". Besides, how transgressive and militant and "real" can you be when the entire thing is vetted and approved by the oligarchs at CBS and the Recording Musicians Academy? Fake.
-What was up with Ice Cube's fat son flashing a handful of rings like he was selling for TV Johnny Jewelry? That shit was stupid. Were they Super Bowl rings?
-Lady Gaga and her goddamn "tribute" to David Bowie had too many songs, and it LOOKED stupid once the camera pulled back. I would have loved her to pick two songs, an early one and a late one, and then SING THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. Besides, it goes to prove my long-standing contention that David Bowie's music is boring, vanilla, standard 4/4 basic chord progression CRAP, and that without the facade of his image, style, and showmanship, the music does NOT HOLD UP.
-The Weeknd, who was supposed to perform a duet with Lauryn Hill, had to instead do a very slow and dull rendition of Feel My Face, slow and dull ON PURPOSE because otherwise the stupid ballad he sung right afterwards would have seemed even more boring and turgid and deflating. Fuck Lauyryn Hill too. Her music sucks and the Fugees suck.
-The "tribute" to Lionel Richie started off great and sank into massive suck, kind of like Lionel Richie's career....
Things I found funny
-Drunk ass Selena Gomez, drunk AF before the show even began, looked a hot mess next to T Swift, and introduced the Weekend horribly.
-The camera angles on Taylor Swift, used to hide the fact that she is a terrible live performer, cannot dance, and has the gangly uncoordinated limbs of a statuesque lesbian basketball player.
-The geriatric "Hollywood Vampires", who performed a boring ass song of their own, then jumped right into Ace of Spades and only played like 1/3 of it, leaving out the most iconic Lemmy line, "I know I'm going to lose / Cuz gambling's for fools / but that's the way I like it baby / I don;t want to live forever." Pathetic. So much pyro and FAKE pyro on screens behind them....trying to hide their old-folks home postures
-My wife asking me if the singer for Alabama Shakes is encephalitic.
This I did Like
-I have heard the Alabama Shakes perform Dont wanna fight no more before, and I always dig it.
-Chris Stapleton played a great tune and made me wish they played country music like that on the radio, instead of that horrendous shit that Carrie Underwood and her husband play.
-I am not a fan of a cappela anything, but I enjoyed the simple tribute by Pentatonix and Stevie Wonder, done at the last second, and they showed that a good song carried itself, especially if you have a musician as talented as Mr. Wonder doing it justice.
all in all it was a goddamn nightmare.....
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